Little update.
Managed to get a few bits and pieces sorted on the car prior to it's journey up to Dyna Tune this weekend for mapping
All the gauges and water/meth injection system are now fully wired in and final fitted.
Although I can't take any credit for the wiring as it just boggles my mind.
So my Dad spent most of the bank holiday weekend sorting it all out, as well as sorting the wiring for the ecu.
As a result of his hard efforts the car was now running
So happy to hear it run after being off the road since September and with all the
'fiddling' that I had done in that time
Obviously just a generic 3sgte base map so was very lumpy buts it's a start.
Here's a little pic of the interior as it looks now.
Almost forgot to mention the new gear knob
More of a show piece tbh but I'll see if I like it.
Otherwise it'll sit in the glovebox and get swapped over for shows and shoots just because I think it looks cool
Ignore the state of the bodywork.
She'll be getting a full detail very soon.
Before the car goes back on the road it needed a new front bumper as I sold my Airwalker bumper to
'Bolton' on here shortly after the car came off the road.
As it happens, I had a spare Airwalker that I was keeping should I ever need it.
Although it was in quite a bad way.
Some of you may remember it from earlier in this thread, being held together by many zip ties.
So I took it down to the painter I used on the rest of my kit and had it looking like new in no time.
From this:
To this:
I also relocated the number plate, just to change things up a bit.
Next on my hit list was brakes.
Just a simple discs and pads change.
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Unfortunately, most likely due to the car sitting outside going nowhere for the last 6 months, it wasn't as simple as I hoped.
A sticky front passenger carrier slider which resulted in me breaking the seal meant I had to raid my
'caliper parts bin' and luckily had a spare carrier.
So that got painted red to match and refitted.
Onto the rears, passenger side fine, drivers side.
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No spares this time so Peter Gidden to the rescue, who supplied a rear caliper and slider which my Dad was able to pick up on his way home from work
(via a slight detour) so major thanks go out to both again.
With all 4 calipers now the right colour and freely moving I could finally swap the discs and pads.
Discs I got from MTEC Brakes and are grooved and dimpled with their special black protective coating.
I wanted to upgrade from OEM pads so was going to try some Carbotechs, but I kept seeing Bob
(Hatton) mention Porterfields so I decided to get them instead.
I chose the R4-S pads for anyone interested, which claim to be the ultimate fast road performance pad.
So I've high expectations for these and look forward to giving them some abuse.
Couple of pics.
Discs and pads:
Before:
After:
I also gave all four wheel wells, struts and arches a good scrub.
No sign of corrosion anywhere in the arches
I will eventually have it all undersealed properly.
Rear tyres were down to the wear marks so decided to replace all four.
After much research and even more disapproval from my father I bought a set of Nankang NS2R's in their 120 Treadwear Soft compound.
Lot's a good reviews about these at the moment so once again, curiosity got the better of me and I had to try them.
205/45/16 up front and 235/40/17 on the rear.
At
£400 a set I thought that to be very reasonable for a set of road legal semi's.
Very much looking forward to the drive back from Scotland once the brakes are bed in and tyres scrubbed up
Back to the ecu
- I've been in constant contact with Chris Forbes
(Dyna Tune) who will be mapping the car and he's been sending me tweaked maps based on some data logging as well as some internet trickery where he can take over my laptop and do some live tuning.
Next step was to get it out on the road for some more logs and tweaks.
Car is running reasonably well now, comfortably cruising as normal speeds.
I haven't tried any boost yet, for obvious reasons but at least the journey to Scotland won't be too painful now
Very happy with the service
(and patience) from Chris so far.
Highly recommended up to now.
Ok, so it turned into quite a long update, but hey ho
more to come next week
